---
type: "Bill"
title: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer"
description: "WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer"
jurisdiction: "us/states/la"
legislature: "Louisiana Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 802"
citation: "Louisiana HB 802 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason Dewitt"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-03-27"
last_action: "2024-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567"
source_url: "https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/BillInfo.aspx?i=246943"
source_hash: "43b24fa534d09ce01c6e79be8f565241243b9effd8c59278fa3d595144e70aa5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-la"]
---

# Louisiana HB 802 (2024) — WILDLIFE & FISHERIES: Authorizes the use of dogs to retrieve mortally wounded deer

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB802 Original** (filed) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1359270)
2. **HB802 Act** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1379636)
3. **HB802 Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361942)
4. **HB802 Reengrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1364162)
5. **House Committee Amendment, #2122, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1360125)
6. **House Committee Amendment, #2214, NATR, Draft** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361271)
7. **House Committee Amendment, #2286, NATR, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1361853)
8. **House Floor Amendment, #2456, Dewitt, Adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1362801)
9. **HB802 Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1375883)

## Votes

- FINAL PASSAGE (#932) — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE (#365) — **103–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jason Dewitt — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-05-24** Effective date: 08/01/2024.
- **2024-05-24** Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 272. `became-law, executive-signature`
- **2024-05-22** Sent to the Governor for executive approval. `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-20** Signed by the President of the Senate.
- **2024-05-20** Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House. `enrolled`
- **2024-05-20** Received from the Senate without amendments. `receipt`
- **2024-05-16** Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 36 yeas and 1 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled. `passage`
- **2024-05-07** Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage. `reading-3`
- **2024-05-06** Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
- **2024-05-01** Reported favorably. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-16** Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-15** Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-04-09** Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 103, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate. `passage`
- **2024-04-08** Scheduled for floor debate on 04/09/2024.
- **2024-04-04** Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading. `reading-3`
- **2024-04-03** Reported with amendments (12-0). `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-04-02** Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Natural Resources and Environment. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-27** Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0a1c71e8-0fac-4e0a-9edc-3a3673e9c567`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Louisiana legislature records).